Man confessed to ‘strangling’ woman 21 years ago

A man has been handed down a life sentence after walking in to a garda station and confessing to “strangling” a Dublin woman in her home 21 years ago in a “completely unprovoked” attack.

Howard Kelly, aged 41, of Osprey Apartments, Naas, Co Kildare, was charged with the murder of Margot Seery, aged 48, on March 27 this year.

Yesterday, Kelly pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering Ms Seery at her home in Kenilworth Square, Dublin 6, on or between October 7 and October 8, 1994.